Studies in scientific realism /
This book offers a clear analysis of the standard arguments for and against scientific realism (i.e., the position that the theoretical entities postulated by science exist). Kukla focuses on what Jarrett Leplin calls minimal epistemic realism, which merely claims that it is not impossible to have g...
| Основен автор: | Kukla, Andre, 1942- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Серия: |
Oxford University Press on-line.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23543 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Studies in scientific realism. |
Съдържание:
- 1. The Varieties of Realism; 2. Realism and the Success of Science; 3. Realism and Scientific Practice; 4. Realism and Theoretical Unification; 5. Realism and Underdetermination I: Does Every Theory Have Empirically Equivalent Rivals?; 6. Realism and Underdetermination II: Does Empirical Equivalence Entail Underdetermination?; 7. The Vulnerability Criterion of Belief; 8. The Belief-Acceptance Distinction; 9. The Theory-Observation Distinction I: Fodor's Distinction; 10. The Theory-Observation Distinction II: Van Fraassen's Distinction.